Get involved!

Interested in attending the reading group? Have a question about one of the events Platypus is hosting?

We are always looking for writers, speakers, anyone interested, ideas, etc. If you’re interested in getting involved, let us know.

Also, get connected with the Platypus Yahoo! discussion group and the Platypus Facebook group.

*(denotes required field)

Name:*

E-Mail Address:*

Subject:*

Message:*

CAPTCHA Code:*

Powered by Fast Secure Contact Form

Share

Comments are closed.

• Popular

  Most Comments

  Search

  Tags

  Site Tags 1789 1848 1871 1917 1930s 1960s 1966 1968 1970 1970s 1972 1977 1977-79 1986 1990 19th Century 2007 2009 20th Century 3rs A. Philip Randolph Aaron Hughes Aaron Petcoff Aay Preston-Myint Abraham Mwaura academy action activism Adam Smith Adam Turl Add new tag Adolph Reed Adony Melathopoulos aesthetic Afghanistan AFL AFL-CIO Ahmadinejad Alain Badiou Alan Goodman Alan Spector Alex Butterworth Ali Sahri'ati alienation Amanda Armstrong America American Communist Party Amiri Baraka anarchism and James Thindwa Andony Melathopoulos Andrew Feenberg Andrew Kliman Angela Davis Angry Arts Week ANSWER anti-Americanism anti-Bolshevism anti-capitalism anti-Communism Anti-Deutsche anti-gentrification anti-globalization anti-imperialism anti-intellectualism anti-semitism anti-war Antonie Pannekoek Antonio Gramsci Antonio Negri Antonis Vardis architecture AREA Chicago Arnold Schoenberg Around the Coyote Gallery Art Art and Politics Art and Society Art Workers' Coalition Artforum Arthur C. Danto artistic labor artists Ashleigh Campi Ashley Weger Atiya Khan Atlee McFellin audience Q&A authoritarianism Ayesha Siddiqa Ayub Khan Baader-Meinhof Complex Baader-Meinhof Group bailout Barack Obama barbarism Bayard Rustin Ba’athism Ben Blumberg Ben Lewis Ben Shepard Benazir Bhutto Benjamin Blumberg Benjamin Constant Benjamin Shepard Bhaskar Sunkara Bhutto Bill Ayers Bill Ayers Columbus 280 SAIC Right Think Expanding Imaginative Sapce Bill Clinton Black Belt thesis Black Bloc Black Mask Black Nationalism Black Panther Black Panthers black question black Trotskyism black workers Bob Avakian Bolivarian Revolution Bologna Process Bolshevik Bolshevik Revolution bolshevism Bonapartism book Book Review Booker T. Washington Bosnia Bourbaki Panorama bourgeois Bret Schneider Brian Dominick Brian Holmes Brian Worley Bronzeville Historical Society Bryan Palmer Bush administration C. Wright Mills calendar Canada Canadian Auto Workers capital capitalim capitalism Carl Davidson Carlos J. Pereira Di Salvo Castoriadis Ceylon Communist Party change Chapati Mystery chapter Charles Post Chartism Chartists Che Chicago Chicago North side Chicago Women's Health Center Chris Chris Cutrone chris mansour Christopher Hitchens Chuck Hendricks civil rights class class consciousness class struggle Claude McKay Cliff Slaughter Clinton Clyde Gonzalez Clyde Young co-optation Columbia University commodity fetishism commodity form Communism Communist League of America Communist Part of Great Britain communist party Communist Party of Germany community consciousness consciousness of the proletariat contact contemporary art Convention 2012 Copernican Revolution council communism counterrevolution CPGB crisis critical theory Cultural Revolution culture Daniel Cohn-Bendit Danny Postel date Dave Shukla David Bholat David Black David Bush David Graeber David Haack David Harvey David Renton David Wilson de-radicalization Debord defeat degeneration democracy democratic democratic society Democrats depoliticization dept Detroit Die Linke difference Dimitris Dalakoglou Discussion Domenico Losurdo domination DRUM dystopia economics economy editorial Edouard Castres Eduard Bernstein Eduard Manet Egypt Eighteenth Brumaire election elena davis emancipation emancipatory Emmanuel Tellez Engels enlightenment equivalential Eric Stoner Erik Van Deventer Ernesto Laclau Ervand Abrahamian Eugène Delacroix event events Exchanges exhibition explitation failure fascism FDR feature Felix Baum feminism feminist film financial First International forum France Francis Bacon Francis Fukuyama Franco-Prussian war Frankfurt School Frantz Fanon Franz Boas Fred Halliday Free Geek freedom French Revolution Freud Friday 23 2009 Friedrich Hayek FRSO G20 Summit gabriel gaster Gary Mucciaroni gay identity gender gentrification Georg Lukács George Scialabba Gerhard Richter German National Bolshevik Movement German Revolution Germany Gillian Rose Giovanni Arrighi global capital godard google Gorin government Greece Green Movement Greg Gabrellas Gregg Horowitz group Grover Furr Guerrilla Art Action Group Hadi Saleh Haiti Hal Foster Hamid Dabashi Handmaid's Tale Hanna Batatu Hannah Appel Hans Haacke Harlem Harold Pinter Haseeb Ahmed Hegel Hegelian hegemony Heidegger helplessness Henry Ford Herbert Marcuse hisotory historical materialism Historical Progress History history against the grain History and Class Consciousness history of humanity History of the Left Holocaust hope Hosni Mubarak housing Howard Zinn Hubert Harrison Hugo Chavez human rights humanity Hundred Days campaign Hussein Ibish Hyde Park Art Center Ian Morrison idealism identity Identity Politics ideological ideology Igor Stravinksy Illinois Humanities Council imaginative space immigration Imperialism Imre Szeman income India industrial Industrial Revolution installation institutionalization integrationism intellectual space International Bolshevik Tendency International Convention international convention 2009 june 12 14 about information International Socialist Organization internationalism Interview Interviews invation invations Iran Iranian Revolution Iraq Iraqi Communist Party ISF Islam Islamic Republic Islamic Revolution islamism Islamization ISO Israel Israel-Palestine Conflict Issue # 11 issue # 13 Issue #1 Issue #10 Issue #12 issue #14 issue #15 Issue #16 Issue #17 Issue #18 Issue #19 Issue #2 issue #20 issue #21 Issue #22 issue #23 Issue #24 issue #25 issue #26 issue #27 issue #28 issue #29 Issue #3 issue #30 issue #31 Issue #32 Issue #33 issue #35 issue #36 Issue #37 Issue #38 Issue #39 Issue #4 Issue #40 Issue #41 issue #42 Issue #43 issue #44 Issue #45 Issue #46 Issue #5 Issue #6 Issue #7 Issue #8 Issue #9 issue 34 Italy IWW J. M. Bernstein J.P. Nettl Jacques-Louis David Jairus Banaji James Heartfield James P Cannon James Robertson James Vaughn Jamie Keesling Jason Wright Jean-Paul Sartre Jeff Koons Jeff Wall Jeffrey B. Perry Jeremy Cohan Jerzy Sobotta JFK Joe Biden Joe Grim Feinberg Joel Kovel John D'Emilio John Kenneth Galbraith Jorge Mujica Joseph Dietzgen Joseph Schumpeter Joshua Howard Journal of Ordinary Thought Julia Bryan-Wilson Juliet Mitchell Jürgen Habermas Kanan Makiya Kant Karl Kautsky Karl Korsch Karl Liebknecht Karl Polanyi Karl Radek Kashmir kaveh ehsani Kenneth Warren Kenyon Farrow Kevin Anderson Keynesianism Korsch Kurds La Commune labor labor movement Labor Notes Lanka Sama Samaja Party Larissa MacFarquhar Lars Lih lashkar-e-taiba Laura Schmidt Laurel Whitney Laurie Rojas leadership League of Revolutionary Black Workers lecture Left Left Behind Left Forum Lenin Leo Panitch Leonid Brezhnev Liam Warfield liberalism liberation Libera­tion Tigers of Tamil Eelam lives others 2006 history humanity saic film screening Louis Auguste Blanqui Loyola U. Chicago LRBW LSSP luis brennan Lydia Goehr Malcolm X Manan Ahmed Manning Marable Maoism Marc Herbst Marco Torres Marcuse Margaret Atwood Margarethe von Trotta Marisa Holmes Mark Hopwood Mark Rudd Martin Heidegger Marx Marx at the Margins Marxism marxist Marxist-Hummanist Committee Mary Jane Jacob Matthew Birkhold Max Elbaum Max Elliott Katz max horkheimer Max Shachtman Mayday maziar behrooz MCA McCain meet meeting Meinhof Mel Rothenberg Mess Hall Messianic Michael Albert Michael Burawoy Michael Dawson Michael Löwy Michael Rudolph West Micheal Albert Michel Foucault Mike Macnair militancy military Milton Friedman MLK modern Modernism modernity Moishe Postone month monthly moralism mosque Mousavi movement movements movie multitude Mumbai Mumbai Attacks muqarnas Muslim Naomi Klein Nathan Schneider Nathan Smith nationalism NATO Nawaz Sharif Naxalism Nazi Nazism Negative Dialectics neighborhood Neighborhood Writing Alliance neo-conservatism neo-liberalism New Communist Movement New Deal New Economic Policy New Left New School new SDS New York New Yorker News and Letters Nicholas Brown Nick Kreitman Nietzsche Noam Chomsky novel NYC NYU Obama object occupation occupy Oketch Onyango Omair Hussain opportunism oranizational meeting organization Organization for a Free Society orthodoxy Osha Neumann OWS painting Pakistan Palestine Pam C Nogales Pam C Nogales C Pam Nogales panel discussion panorama Paris participants participate participation participatory democracy particularity Pat Korte Paul Le Blanc Paul Street Pedagogical people Permanent Revolution Persepolis Peter Gessner Peter Hudis Peter Watkins Phil Philip Longo philo philosophy Phiosophy of New Music photography Platypodcast Platypus Platypus Convention Platypus Review issue #1 plurality polarization political political action political economy politics popular populism postmodern postmodernism poverty power powerlessness PPP Principia Dialectica process production Profiles progress progressive Progressive Labor Party proletarian proletariat protest psychoanalysis public fora public forum Queers for Economic Justice race Rachel Haut racism radical Radical Minds radicals Raechel Tiffe RAF Raja Halwani Ramsey Clark RCP RCP (USA) re-enactment reactionary reading group Reagan Reconstruction Red Army Faction red-baiting Reflections Reform reforms regress regression reification religion Rene Lichtman reproduction Republic of Fear Republicans research Resistance response restoration Retort Reviews revolt of the Third Estate Revolution revolutionary Richard Fra Richard Fraser Richard Kidd Richard Rubin Richard Westerman right rights RNC Robert Fitch Robert Hullot-Kentor Robert Pippin Robert Smithson Rohini Hensman Rosa Luxemburg Ross Wolfe roundtable Rousseau Ryan Hardy Ryuichi Sakamoto S. J. V. Chelvanayakam S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike S.J. Benjamin Saddam Hussein SAIC Sam Gindin Sandra Rein Sarkozy Saudi Arabia schedule Schlageter Line screening sculpture SDS Seattle sectarian sectarianism SEIU separatism sexuality Shaun Harkin Sherry Wolf Shia Shirley Stoute Shock Doctrine Sinhalese lion Siyaves Azeri Slavoj Zizek SNCC social social democracy social democratic party Social Democratic party of Germany socialism Socialist Workers Party Socially Responsible Committee society socioeconomic Soren Whited Soviet Revolution Spartakusbund SPD spectacle Spencer A. Leonard split Sri Lanka Stalin stalinism Stalinophilia statement Stefan Dietl Stephen Duncombe Stewart Bird Stockyard Institute strike structure student student politics students subjectivity Sunit Singh Sunni Sunnification surplus value Susan Buck-Morss Swat Taliban talk Tamas Krausz Tamil tiger Tamil United Liberation Front Tana Forrester Tania Unzueta Tariq Ali teachers terror Terry Eagleton Terry Glavin The Crisis of German Social Democracy The Guardian The Handmaid's Tale the Left The Left Forum the Motherfuckers The Odyssey Project The Platypus Historians Group The Platypus Review the Right Theodo Theodor Theodor W. Adorno Theodore W. Allen theology theory Theory of the Novel Third Way Tim Barker Tim Sarrantonio Tim Wohlforth time Timothy Hall Tom Riley Toronto totality Tout Va Bien Trade Union Unity League transformation Translation Trevor Bark Triumpth of the Will Trotsky trotskyism troy pasulka Tuomas Nevanlinna U.N. U.S. Civil War U.S. stimulus package UAW Uli vom Hagen Ulrike Meinhof Underground Railroad union unions Unite Here United National Party Universal History universality University of Chicago urban development urban renewal US Labor Against the War US Social Forum USAS utopia utopian utopianism value Vaughn Cartwright Velupillai Prabhakaran Venezuela Versailles Via Campesina video Vietnam violence Volker Schlöndorff vulgar Marxism W.E.B. Dubois Walter Benjamin Walter Benn Michaels war War on Terror Watson Ladd Weather Underground Weberian critique week weekly Will Klatt Wilsonianism women women's rights Woodlawn workers Workers United working class World Can't Wait World Social Forum WPI WWI WWII Young Socialist Alliance Zeb Dingley Zia-ul-Haq Zionism Zora Neale Hurston Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

  Archives

  Monthly Archives May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 July 2007 January 2007 September 2006

• Platypus Chapters

  • Boston
  • Chicago
  • Delhi, India
  • Germany
  • Halifax
  • Kingston, Ontario
  • London (U.K.)
  • New York
  • Philadelphia
  • Seoul, Korea
  • Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Toronto
  • Vienna

• Platypus Links

  • - Platypus flyer
  • Platypus Facebook group
  • Platypus NYC Google group
  • Platypus on the history of the Left
  • Platypus on the present
  • Platypus Yahoo! group
  • Special Issue #17: The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century
  • The Marxist hypothesis
  • The Platypus Synthesis: History, theory and practice

• Platypus Review

  • Editorial statement of purpose and submission guidelines
  • Issue # 1 (November 2007)
  • Issue # 2 (February 2008)
  • Issue # 3 (March 2008)
  • Issue # 4 (April–May 2008)
  • Issue # 5 (May–July 2008)
  • Issue # 6 (September 2008)
  • Issue # 7 (October 2008)
  • Issue # 8 (November 2008)
  • Issue # 9 (December 2008)
  • Issue #10 (February 2009)
  • Issue #11 (March 2009)
  • Issue #12 (May 2009)
  • Issue #13 (July 2009)
  • Issue #14 (August 2009)
  • Issue #15 (September 2009)
  • Issue #16 (October 2009)
  • Issue #17 (November 2009)
  • Issue #18 (December 2009)
  • Issue #19 (January 2010)
  • Issue #20 (February 2010)
  • Issue #21 (March 2010)
  • Issue #22 (April 2010)
  • Issue #23 (May 2010)
  • Issue #24 (June 2010)
  • Issue #25 (July 2010)
  • Issue #26 (August 2010)
  • Issue #27 (September 2010)
  • Issue #28 (October 2010)
  • Issue #29 (November 2010)
  • Issue #30 (December 2010)
  • Issue #31 (January 2011)
  • Issue #32 (February 2011)
  • Issue #33 (March 2011)
  • Issue #34 (April 2011)
  • Issue #35 (May 2011)
  • Issue #36 (June 2011)
  • Issue #37 (July 2011)
  • Issue #38 (August 2011)
  • Issue #39 (September 2011)
  • Issue #40 (October 2011)
  • Issue #41 (November 2011)
  • Issue #42 (December 2011–January 2012)
  • Issue #43 (February 2012)
  • Issue #44 (March 2012)
  • Issue #45 (April 2012)
  • Issue #46 (May 2012)

• Related Links

  • 3CT: Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
  • AREA Chicago
  • Chris Cutrone: The Last Marxist
  • Four Ninety One
  • Marx Myths
  • Marxist Internet Archive
  • Marxist-Humanist Initiative
  • Mayday magazine (U.K.)
  • The Hobgoblin (U.K.)
  • U.S. Marxist-Humanists

• Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

• Tags

  20th Century 1960s anarchism Art capitalism Chris Cutrone crisis critical theory Discussion emancipation Exchanges freedom Georg Lukács Greg Gabrellas History History of the Left Ian Morrison ideology Interview Iran Karl Korsch Lenin Marx Marxism marxist movement New Left New York Obama organization Pam C Nogales politics public fora Reflections Reviews Revolution Richard Rubin Rosa Luxemburg socialism Spencer A. Leonard the Left Theodor W. Adorno The Platypus Review Trotsky Walter Benjamin

• Recent Posts

  • Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism
  • Platypus summer 2012: Trotsky and Trotskyism
  • Liberalism and Marx: An interview with Domenico Losurdo
  • Changes in art and society: A view from the present
  • Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914–1920: A conversation with Ben Lewis

• Recent Comments

  • Noa Rodman on Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914–1920: A conversation with Ben Lewis
  • #OccupyMayDay 2012 #Occupy #Christchurch #M1 #OWS #GlobalSpring #GeneralStrike #M1GS #Chch « Rik Tindall blogs on What is the #Occupy movement?
  • interview with Domenico Losurdo on liberalism and marxism | being-in-exodus on Liberalism and Marx: An interview with Domenico Losurdo
  • Liberalism and Marx: An interview with Domenico Losurdo « The Charnel-House on Liberalism and Marx: An interview with Domenico Losurdo
  • After Hegel: An interview with Robert Pippin « LibArts London on After Hegel: An interview with Robert Pippin